Labour’s Emily Thornberry becomes latest MP to suffer ‘car crash’ interview after warning against detaining terror suspects

Emily Thornberry became the latest of Jeremy Corbyn’s top team to suffer a car crash interview as she warned against detaining terror suspects - because police might “arrest the wrong Mohammed”.

Standing in for her ill shadow cabinet colleague Diane Abbott for a key election debate about security, she said locking up suspected jihadis would only radicalise them more.

Asked if she backed detaining more terror suspects, Ms Thornberry told Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour: “The difficulty is that you can make a mistake and if you arrest the wrong Mohammed and you keep him locked up for three months and you eventually realise you’ve got the wrong guy and you let him out – if he wasn’t radical before he certainly will be by the time he gets out.”

She also borrowed Ms Abbott’s brain fade as she fumbled over the cost of Labour’s pledge to reverse changes to the state pension age.

She was forced to root around in her handbag to find the figures while she was live on air.

But she still failed to give a figure even with the Labour manifesto in front of her.